Paint Covers a Multitue of "Sins"

Finally, after nearly 40 years (!), I've managed to put trim around this dormer window. It was a bear cutting all the individual pieces to fit around the existing roof structures. Thank goodness for siliconized caulk.

 

EDIT (2026/10/27):

These photos are of the west gable, intended to show what it looks like as of today, now that I have (most of) the trim up for the pediment piece (currently painted white).  I still need to put up a piece of trim below the left side of the pediment.  But, as is probably clear, the scaffolding isn't close enough, and I'm not about to try doing that from a ladder, not at my age.

The pediment piece is from the same long-since demolished house as the porch pillars.  The roof of that house wasn't as steep as mine, so it doesn't fit properly into the gable.  Fortunately, some of the PVC trim I'm using was wide enough to hide the gap.  I like how it turned out.

When I put the pediment piece up all those years ago, I had painted it vibrant colors, which you can see in one of the photos in this old post.  But, with 30+ years of west-facing weathering, the pain was in sad shape. So, for now, I just painted over the whole thing with "elastometric" roof paint to protect the wood from further weather.  As I'm hoping to get the scaffolding down and stored away before winter, I'll have to re-assemble it next year to paint the pediment with colors.